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• If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task,…
• I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
• The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but…
• The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
• Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal…
• The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that…
• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for…

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